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====== Animated Egg, Gourd, Fruit, etc. ====== | ====== Animated Egg, Gourd, Fruit, etc. ====== | ||
- | The idea of putting an insect inside a hollow object, like an apple, blown egg, gourd, ring, etc., to make it move mysteriously was recorded in a late fifteenth century notebook by Thomas Betson, a monk at Syon Abby in Middlesex. This notebook is at St. John's College, Cambridge, MS. E.6, according to Richard Kieckhefer in //Magic in the Middle Ages//, 1989, p. 91. Betson used a beetle in a hollowed apple. | + | The idea of putting an insect inside a hollow object, like an apple, blown egg, gourd, ring, etc., to make it move mysteriously was recorded in a late fifteenth century notebook by Thomas Betson, a monk at Syon Abby in Middlesex. This notebook is at St. John's College, Cambridge, MS. E.6, according to Richard Kieckhefer in //[[http:// |
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+ | An early published source of the same apple/ | ||
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+ | Another early source for this trick is Horatio Napolitana' | ||
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